Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-17

| the committee on credentials, showing that $50 clubs were represented in the conven- tion by 353 delegates After Chairman Evarts had taken his seat amid applause there were repeated calls for General Nathan Golf, who descended from the gallery and climbed to the platform After thanking the convention for it's rousing welcome to him General Golf said ftI came from land south of Mason and Dixon's line and represent Republicans. We are Republicans from con viction. We are of country that before the organization of the Republican party was suf- fering from the blight of slavery, Ignorance and Democracy. Speaking for Republicans who have lived in the land have alluded to I want to tell you why we are Republicans if you have time (eries-Iots of it.') We are Republicans because living in the land we be- ieve that American labor and industry shall be protected by law (cheers). The Democratic party has been false to that idea. We re- member when only the children of the favor- ed few could enjoy education, but the Repub- lican party has allowed all to enjoy these privileges All men who lived there did not march under the stars and bars when others hcisted the flag of rebellion I with others marched with Sherman and through the Wilderness with the indomitabIe Grant (deafening applause) until the peace of Ap- pomattox. But represent also the men who fought with Lee, but who at the return of peace marched out from the errors of the past and they all voted at the last election for James G. Blaine Tremendous applause ) Our party has always dared to do right whether or not it was expedient. It has no sympathy for the anarchists, the paupers of other countries or polygamous men. It stands for all that is great in human action, grand in human thought It is the party that has torn down and rebuilt the weak places of the govern ment- The Republican party has purified the institutions of our fathers and cleansed the institutions of their children. I am not going to name men for office; am going to talk about men. I am going to say the ma terial of our convention is so good that the choice of a candidate for 1888 must be good With Allison of Iowa, Lincoln of Illinois, Harrison of Indiana, Sherman of Ohio Flaw ley of Connecticut, Evarts and Hiscock of New York, Phil Sheridan of the United States, and last but by no means least Blaine of Maine, we should win"
 Cheers followed each name, but the men tion of Blaine aroused the greatest applause
 John A. Karen, of Iowa, then read the re- port of the committee on resolutions. The report reeites the glorious history of ths Re- publican party, in it's devotion to the eduea- tion of the masses, the extension of liberty to every human being within the national juris- diction by wiping out the accursed stain of slavery, the regeneration of the national cre- dit, the resumption of specie payment, the development of our national resources, the addition of four States and five territories, the encouragement of the activities of the country by which the population increased threefold, and the reformation of the civil service. Reference also is made at length to Cley eland's free trade message.
 The various benefits which have accruded under protection are recited at length, and the resolutions close with thirteen declara- tions, refusing to abandon home protection; predicting disaster under the Democratic policy; declining to accept the proposition Of the Presidents message which favor for eign rather than home laborers and indus tries; urges substitution of home for foreign competition and the development of home markets and manufacturers by means of cheapened inter State communication; de- douncing the Democratic House for not ad- mitttng as States those territories having a sufficient population; condemning the same body for it's hostility to meas uress for broad popular education, in- sisting on free and honest ballot in every State of the Union, charging the Democratic party with failure to build up the navy and prepare seacoast defenses; charging the Democratic administration with culpable weakness in defending American industries and individual rights on the high seas and in foreign lands; condemning Democratic prostitution of the civ Il service to partisan purposes; charging the President with ignoring the just claims of soldiers, closing as follows: "Up- on this history and this declaration we sum- mon to our aid not only the patriotism of the country, but it's labor, it's industry, it's com meree and it's statesmanship.
 A number of pithy speeches favoring the report were made. When the question on the adoption of the report was reached MT. Eustis called for action first on the resolution opposing MT. Lamar's confirmation as Su- preme court justice, but he was ruled out of order and the report was unanimously adopt ed. MT. Eustis then tried to offer his Lamar resolution, but Chairman Eyarts said the resolution was in the hands of the com mittee and MT. Eustis was out of order. E. T. Crockett, chairman of the New York delegation, moved that the resolution be re- called from the committee. MT. Rice, of Massachusetts, said the convention should not throw mud. Others expressed the same view and Captain A. P. Cunningham, of Washington, moved to adjourn. J. A. Kasson seconded the motion and it was carried with rush. The convention meets again at 10 a. m. tomorrow.